4 . Gently holding a baby hummingbird, Catia Lattou says, “Hello, cute little guy. Are you hungry?” It’s the newest patient at her apartment in Mexico City, where she has nursed hundreds of the tiny birds back to health over the past ten years. Under Catia’s gentle touch, the bird relaxes little by little, allowing her to examine it. This is often how Catia’s days have gone since she turned her apartment into a home for sick, injured or baby hummingbirds.

Catia began caring for hummingbirds a year after surviving colon cancer in 2011. It started with one hummingbird that had an eye injured by another bird. A friend encouraged her to try to help it. She named it Warrior after the brand (品牌) of the glasses case she kept it in. The bird became her inseparable companion, resting on her computer screen while she worked. “It wrote me a new life,” she said of the nine months the bird stayed with her. It helped pull Catia out of the sadness and loneliness she had experienced after her husband’s death followed by her cancer.

Later, friends began bringing her more hummingbirds, and the need for her services has jumped since last year. She began studying how to better care for the tiny birds that are native to the Americans. Someone put a video about her work on the social platform TikTok, which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times.

Catia says she never turns away a bird. She cares for the birds from 5 a. m. into the night. Most of the hummingbirds stay in Catia’s bedroom until they are strong enough to fly and feed themselves before they are finally freed.

The city is filled with menace to hummingbirds. There are other birds that attack them and destroy (毁掉) their home as well as modern building projects that replace flower gardens. But Catia remains positive and is certain that other bird lovers will plant more flowers to feed the birds. “Nothing is ensured,” she said. “But we do everything possible.”

1. What can be learned about Warrior?

A．It survived for only nine months.	B．It made Catia’s cancer disappear.
C．It became well-known for its name.	D．It helped Catia through tough times.

2. What does the underlined word in the last paragraph probably mean?

A．Warning.

B．Noise.

C．Pollution.

D． Danger.

3. How can people help improve hummingbirds’ living conditions?

A．By growing more flowers.	B．By introducing more birds.
C．By freeing the injured ones.	D．By putting up more buildings.

4. Which best describes Catia?

A．Selfless and honest.	B．Kind and hard-working.
C．Sociable and humorous.	D．Knowledgeable and frank.

10 . 阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的六个选项选出四个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

My husband and I just spent a week in Paris.     1     So the first thing we did was rent a fantastically expensive sixth-floor apartment the size of a cupboard. It was so tiny that we had to leave our suitcases in the hallway.

The place wasn’t entirely authentic (地道的法国住房), though. Unlike a normal Parisian apartment, the plumbing (水管) worked.     2     Our building even had a tiny lit with a female voice that said, “Ouverture des portes,” (门已开启) in perfect French. That is the only French phrase I mastered, and it’s a shame I don’t have much use for it.

Parisians are different from you and me. They never look lazy or untidy. As someone noted in this paper a couple of weeks ago, they eat great food and never gain weight. The food is so delicious that you don’t need much of it to make you happy. French strawberries do not taste like cardboard. Instead, they explode in your mouth like little flavor bombs.

    3     On our first morning in Paris, I went around the corner to the food market to pick up some groceries. I bought a handful of perfectly ripe small strawberries and a little sweet melon. My husband and I agreed they were the best fruit we had ever eaten. But they cost $18! That was too expensive!

In France, quality of life is much more important than efficiency (效率). You can tell this by cafes life. French cafes are always crowded.     4     When do these people work? The French take their 35-hour workweek seriously. They are unwilling to work an extra minute!

A．Not all the customers are tourists.

B．The quality of life in France is equally excellent.

C．There was a nice kitchen and a comfortable bed.

D．The amazing food is mainly consumed by local farmers.

E．That’s not the only reason the French eat less than we do.

F．Our aim was to see if we could live, in some way, like real Parisians.